Linwood Pendleton, phd
GLOBAL OCEAN LEAD SCIENTIST
world wildlife fund
Linwood Pendleton is the Global Ocean Lead Scientist at the World Wide Fund for Nature. He also holds both the International Chair of Excellence at the European Institute for Marine Studies (part of the Laboratory of Excellence in Brest, France) and a Senior Fellowship at Duke’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions (NIEPS).
Linwood has broad experience in marine conservation science with degrees in biology (William and Mary), ecology/evolution/behavior (Princeton), public administration (Harvard), and environmental economics (Yale). His work, both in academia and the real world, incorporates all of these fields and more.
Linwood was the founder of the Marine Ecosystem Services Partnership, he served as the Acting Chief Economist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 2011-2013, and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Duke University Marine Laboratory. He has also collaborated with conservation organizations worldwide including here at WWF, The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund, NRDC, and he served for nearly ten years on the Board of the Conservation Strategy Fund. He currently serves on the Science Advisory Committee of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, GEO Blue Planet steering committee, Marine GEOBON RCN, and the Blue Carbon Finance Working Group.